MONTREAL – Cogeco Cable subsidiaries Cogeco Data Services and Peer 1 Hosting officially opened a new 100,000-square-foot data centre in Kirkland, on the island of Montreal, Friday.
The 100,000-square-foot centre is the first in Canada to offer consumption-based power billing, the most technologically advanced in the region, and represents a commitment in the order of more than $100 million over time, reads the news release.
The ideal location for customers designing a data hosting, disaster recovery or business continuity solution, the facility is designed for a capacity of up to 16.5 Mega Watts, built to Tier 3 standards and backed by the company's 100G-ready, wholly-owned fibre network infrastructure. Designed for scalability and reliability, the facility offers 100% uptime guarantee, around the clock monitoring and video surveillance and is equipped with state-of-the-art chillers, N+1 power, cooling and network redundancy, high density cabinets and hot aisle containment.
"The new facility will play a central role in helping our customers with the transformation of their IT infrastructure”, said Tony Ciciretto, president and CEO of Cogeco Data Services and Peer 1 Hosting, in the release. “With an increasing demand for non-stop IT services, enterprises are seeking the flexibility and speed of the public cloud but they also require a secure and reliable facility to host their mission-critical applications. The Montreal data centre provides customers with the best of both worlds: cloud, colocation, backup and connectivity – in a single facility – to support their core, legacy and emerging applications."
"The construction of this data centre demonstrates our commitment to the vibrant Montreal business community – providing world-class information, communication and technology services that enable customers with true agility to respond to change while driving innovation," added Cogeco president and CEO Louis Audet. "Montreal is an ideal location for this state-of-the-art cloud and colocation facility – the first of its kind in this city – that will provide our customers with the peace of mind of knowing where their data is hosted and that it remains within Canada."
